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Saturday, 30 May 2015

May is another 5 Saturday month and so once more we have a treat for you.A Guest Designer
We are lucky enough to have Rebecca (Melly Moo) to join us this week.
She contributes regularly to our challenges and I know that you are all inspired by her fabulous work.
Welcome Rebecca!

Our Lucky Dip theme is
2 or 4 Legs.
Here's what the team has come up with!

Details of how Rebecca made this are on her blog, do pop over and pay her a friendly visit!

AnneMy two legs are busy getting legless! I've coloured a favourite Art Impressions stamp with watercolour pencils on textured card, with some added paper piecing. The sentiment is a Katy Sue Wine Buffs stamp.When I was assembling my card I got a mark on the image - tiny wine coloured sequins came to the rescue!Chrissie

The stamping on this is in fact deep brown, but looks almost black in this picture. The fox and his matching die are from Clearly Besotted, as is the sentiment, all stamped with Ranger Java Bean dye ink.

The cloud embossing is from Stampin' Up and the tree from MFT. The panels were cut with Simon Says Stamp stitched squares and rectangles.

SarahLooking at these cuties, they don't appear to have legs butI've just googled penguins and legs and apparently they do have very short ones!

Card Recipe:

Sheena Douglass: Falling Snow Embossing folder

Mama Elephant: Arctic Penguins

Clearly Besotted: Signature Christmas

Distress inks in Tumbled Glass & Broken China

AnitaI die cut a circle from white cardstock and trimmed off the edges so it would sit in the corner, and then stamped the sentiment from Clearly Besotted's 'Be Merry' set. The sentiment was masked before spreading embossing paste through a Tim Holtz 'Speckles' stencil. The reindeer was stamped and die cut using Clearly Besotted's 'In Stitches - Christmas' stamp and die set, then popped up on 3D foam.It looks like Christmas is coming to Less is More with the last two cards... there's nothing quite like being prepared!Please do visit the DT's personal blogs... there is always a little extra inspiration to be found there!Join us with this fun challenge and don't forget that creatures are not the only things with legs!***

Saturday, 23 May 2015

Following her Guest appearances over the last few weeks whilst I have been away, Anita has enjoyed herself so much, that she has agreed to stay on as a permanent member of the Design Team here at "Less is More" and we couldn't be more delighted!

I know how much we all appreciate her input and inspiration, to say nothing of her uplifting comments to every participant in our challenges, so DO join me in giving her a huge, huge welcome on board. I know how much you all enjoy seeing her creations each week!

Do please visit her to add your congratulations!

Now onto this week's recipe which is to

Use some Metal

You could use charms, brads, eyelets, photo anchors, wire, paper clips, metal embellishments or any of the ideas supplied by the DT. There are also lots of dies which are reputed to cut metal, so let's see what you can come up with!

Here are our cards to give you a few ideas!

AnitaI really struggle with masculine cards so I'm really pleased with this one. On a strip of dark grey cardstock I used translucent embossing paste through a metal effect stencil by Dutch Doobadoo. Once dry I added a hammer charm/brad (from my stash) to some co-ordinating grosgrain ribbon and wrapped this around, securing on the back. This was then mounted on a strip of lighter grey cardstock and a simple sentiment was stamped to finish, this from Sentiment Sampler by Paper Smooches.

Stampin' Up Fritillary, stamped through an aperture with a space left for one wing. Coloured with Inktense pencils, thin metal wire antennae threaded through tiny holes and secured at the back with tape. Hobby Art sentiment.

This is simply a beautiful diamanté buckle threaded onto some grosgrain ribbon, which is in turn is mounted on a scored panel and accompanied by a die cut Congratulations sentiment. As ever, I added some double sided tape to the back of the card before cutting the word so that once cut, all I had to do was peel and press the sentiment in place. The simplicity of this design really pleases me!

My apologies for the lack of commenting, I have been away for a lovely holiday in the sun. I wish I could say that this gorgeous Day for Daisies digi is me in the sun, but, ahem, sadly not! She is coloured with Copics and simply layered up a few times, with the layers edged with Copics.

I must apologise for my lack of commenting over the last couple of weeks, but I was having a wonderful time on a river cruise along the Danube. Amongst other places, I visited Budapest and Vienna and ended up in Prague for a few days. I met some wonderful people and enjoyed all aspects of the holiday... so I hope you'll forgive my lack of appearances at your blogs.Here is a simple card for this week's challenge. All die cuts... from Lawn Fawn and Taylored Expressions, with a computer generated sentiment. In fact the font has stitching around the letters but is too small to have them show up!

Here I used a stamp from the rubber Stamp Gallery.This sea bird is actually on a stand but I chose to have him standing in the water.

He was simply stamped and masked before gently inking the sky and thenstamping and inking and painting the sea.It's got a bit of everything... acrylic paint, heat embossing, stamping, daubing...I just had fun and stopped when I thought it was enough!

After trying to think of an idea using water colours I ended up going in a completely different direction and used this bathtime digi! I printed this image, 'Lola Rose Bubbly' by Pink Petticoat and coloured it with ProMarkers. I then, of course, added some Wink of Stella to the bubbles (there's a close up piccie on my blog). And, as she's showing off her teeth in this image I went with this funny sentiment, from the 'Laugh Out Loud' set by Clearly Besotted, and it fitted perfectly under the bath!

Here is one of Arielle's fabulous digi images from the Wax Fruit Company!Simply coloured with alcohol pens and with a little Glamour Dust added to the sea to make it sparkle.The die part of the sentiment is from Clearly Besotted and the word from Mama Elephant.The image was cut by hand and mounted on pop dots.